To quote the late and legendary commentator Dennis Cometti: “What I found over the years sitting and watching is that you can see where you can say things and where you can’t say things.”

For Cometti, it was all about timing and balance, and it was an art he came to perfect over decades.

Dennis Cometti on Seven’s Friday Night Football in 2009, with Leigh Matthews, Nathan Buckley and Bruce McAvaney. Credit: Seven

And so it was on the........

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